After the Eternal Heavenly Palace swept through the supposedly impregnable coastal defense line outside the Grand Derivation Void Hall like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, sending millions of outer-void guards fleeing in disarray, the entrance to its headquarters finally lay fully exposed before Chu Qing's advancing forces. Built from countless blocks of ancient star divine metal and suspended deep within the Wuwang Void, the magnificent mountain gate was now shrouded in the violently flickering pale-blue screen of a High-Dimensional Mountain-Guarding Formation, oppressive and tinged with the despair of a dead end.
Yet the Grand Derivation Void Hall was, after all, a long-established supreme power that had ruled the Outer Void for endless ages. Even though its vanguard fleet had been annihilated, its four enforcement envoys and hall-guarding treasure reduced to nothing, and its successive defensive lines collapsed without a fight, its deepest reserves were now unleashed in full.
Rumble—!
With a tremendous roar that shook billions of star rivers, a dazzling pillar of divine light shot skyward from the depths of the central forbidden grounds at the Grand Derivation Void Hall's headquarters, instantly tearing through the void defenses. Within that light, a terrifying figure slowly stepped through the air, clad in an ancient robe patterned with the sun, moon, and stars, his face withered but his eyes flashing like lightning. He was the Grand Derivation Void Hall's supreme ruler, who had remained in seclusion for countless epochs and ordinarily revealed nothing of his true depths: the Grand Hall Master!
The Grand Hall Master had emerged from seclusion in person. He stood atop the Grand Derivation mountain gate, billions of intertwined ancient Higher-Dimensional Chains of Karma beneath his feet. The terrifying pressure radiating from him froze even the turbulent currents in the surrounding starry expanse. He stared fixedly at